I daresay, if one could see the deed thus empowering them to confiscate the goods and chattels of others for their own use, according to the wording of the learned clerks in those days, it would run thus:—"Omnium quod flotsam et jetsam, et everything else-um, quod findetes;" in plain English, "Everything floating or thrown up, and everything else you may pick up."
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
From the leaves of Digitalis purpurea , as EXTRACT OF ACONITE —(Ph. L.) 2. (Ph. E.) From the filtered expressed juice, either evaporated in vacuo , with the aid of heat, or by exposure to a current of dry air.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
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